Thermal Processes in Piston, Turbine and Rocket Engines
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 3824
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Jan Kindracki has experience in working with aerospace and detonation propulsion projects. This includes design and testing different components and subsystems for aerospace engines: cold gas, resistojet, monopropellant, bipropellant thruster, RDE rocket thruster, RDE air-breathing engine at the laboratory level. He was a main engineer and manager in national and international projects related to propulsion systems. He is the author of numerous publications in the rotating detonation science area.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The thermal processes in different kinds of engines are a key element to improve performance and decrease emissions of harmful gases. Despite strong efforts to limit fossil fuel consumption by replacing combustion propulsion systems with electrical ones, there is still space for highly efficient and ecofriendly thermal engines. Engines thermal processes involve combustion phenomena, both in deflagration and detonation mode, heating of working medium using different methods or energy sources, as well as thermal stabilization of engine elements—e.g. combustion chamber cooling. In the case of piston engines, efforts should be made for the proper preparation of combustible mixture or design for multi fuels. In turbine engines, the work cycle is modified to improve the compression process—inter-stage cooling or chambers based on the lean mixture combustion process are proposed. Hybrid propulsion for aircraft is also an important trend in jet engine development. In the case of rocket thrusters, great attention has been focused on non-chemical, electric propulsion where enthalpy of working gas is increased by the energy taken from an electrical source, transformed into heat inside the chamber. All these issues are the subject of constant investigation by many researchers all over the world, to make thermal processes as efficient as possible and decrease the operating costs and environmental impact.
Prof. Dr. Jan Kindracki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Injection and mixing liquid fuel
- Deflagration
- Detonation
- Lean combustion
- Electric rocket thruster
